"She makes tennis look easy" says Keys on facing Krejcikova

Madison Keys produced a brilliant effort against Paula Badosa to easily defeat her and move on to the Australian Open quarterfinals.

Rolling from start to finish inside Rod Laver Arena on Sunday in a 6-3, 6-1 win over No.8 seed Paula Badosa of Spain, Keys advanced to her eighth career Grand Slam quarterfinal and first in Australia since 2018. The match lasted only 69 minutes and left many astonished at the level produced by Keys. The mastermind behind it explained her feelings after the match:

"I'm really happy with how I played today. I think I served a lot better than I did in the last match. I think I returned well. I think overall I just started off either neutral or kind of ahead in the point. I had a lot of opportunities to try to move forward. I think just my mindset really let me play that good tennis. That's really what I've been trying to focus on, just giving myself the opportunity to allow myself to play tennis like I did today."

Keys is now a stunning 10-1 in 2022 but even with the high confidence she has, at times she still gets nervous:

"I think it obviously gets harder just because you get tighter and it's bigger moments. Even in the finals in Adelaide, I started incredibly nervous and I felt that. Just acknowledging it, accepting it, not trying to fight it and pretend that it's not happening has been probably the best thing that I've done."

Next up is reigning French Open champion Krejcikova and Keys respects her quite a bit:

"I think she's kind of just making tennis look easy. It seems like no matter what people are doing, she very quickly figures it out and has another game plan to quickly implement. An incredibly difficult matchup."